I HATE WAITING FOR WHISTLES IN THE MAIL

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Thank you. That is all.

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Me too. I don’t know how long I’ve been waiting. I guess I should order one. :laughing:

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Don’t get me started.

Try having to wait for a whistle that you sent off to the maker for a cleanup (after owning it for 10+ years) that was to have taken a few days.

It has been 10 weeks and it still isn’t here - despite it allegedly having been sent out on two other occasions.

Seriously. :swear:

4

Ouch. I think you have me beat. Actually, I haven’t been waiting that long. I start getting itchy the day after I place an order. I think it’s due to WhOA complications.

5

I’m the same way. :slight_smile:

I’d go nuts ordering an Olwell flute or a set of UP’s that would take 5 years to get. :boggle:


(I had to wait over a year to get that whistle to begin with.. “It should be in the next batch” was the story back then. :stuck_out_tongue: )

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:laughing: well, there is a saying that i like to say: “there are two people that you do not want to rush, your surgeon and your instrument maker.” i know it sucks to wait for one, but it is sooooo worth it. :wink:

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Well if you hate waiting for whistles in the mail.. then don’t buy 'em online… :slight_smile:

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Tell me about it!

I’m anxiously waiting for three packages.

1 Overton
3 Syns
2 misc

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The only thing that makes it bearable is already having some nice whistles to play while you’re waiting.

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I know the feeling! I’m new to playing the whistle I ordered a Clarke Sweetone from the Clarke website last friday. I received an email saying my order is being ‘processed’…but I haven’t heard anything since.

Anyway…I went down to my local music shop (I wasn’t expecting them to sell whistles…shops in my local area rarely sell the things I want) and they sell whistles! I bought myself a Generation in key of D!

They only sell Generations separately and they sell Clarke Meg with a book and CD and a walton set.

Does anyone here know if there is much difference in sound between a Clarke Meg and a Clarke Sweetone?

Thanks!

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Nope, shouldn’t be. I’ve had several of both. The Meg is made in China (or so I’ve heard), so it’s cheaper. But they should sound the same.

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The longest I’ve had to wait for a whistle is for a Sindt… I’m on month five so far… still waiting :boggle:

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Thanks!

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The only thing worse than waiting for a whistle in the mail is NOT waiting for a whistle in the mail. (It was one of Wilde’s…) I merely meant your magisty that waiting for a whistle means that a whistle is coming to you.

(With apologies to Monty Python)

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I don’t have the sheet music for “I Hate Waiting for Whistles(in the mail)”, but it would be fun to play while waiting for those pesky whistles . . . in the mail!

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I have become rather fond of the priority mail boxes, as Mike Burke uses those. I highly recommend that everybody sending whistles use ‘em. The crisp white and blue graphics, beaming promise of fun tootin’ upon their opening.

I happen to be waitin’ for a whistle now myself. I wish it was here, yesterday.

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I just learned there is Bleazey low G in Blackwood on its way to me! Already reminds me of the song, “Tonight”, from West Side Story “today the minutes seem like hours - the hours pass so slowly - etc”

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BTW, mine came about a week ago :smiley: . Oveton low D. She’s a beauty.

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I also hate that!
The problem is that the only way to buy them here in Brazil is online, no makers here…
Since I don’t have any whistles to play while I wait (and I’ve been waiting for 2 months already and still counting), I bought a recorder and two seven-holed bamboo flutes, just to have something to blow at :stuck_out_tongue:

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it is the worse thing than it can happen. !!! :swear: :swear:

Whistles, susato, generation and waltons buy one several, or go two weeks and not yet they arrive, this is exasperating … what it bothers to me is that in the page Web they warned that they were only 4 or 10 days of delay … great lie … :cry: :cry: :cry: :sniffle: :sniffle:


P.D: sorry my english :wink: xD